Dear R-users, I would like to use optim( ) to minimize a function which depends on 4 parameters: 2 vectors, a scalar, and a matrix. And I have a hard to define the parameters at the beginning of the function, and then to call optim. Indeed, all the examples I have seen dont treat cases where parameters are not all real. Here is my code, it doesnt work but its just to show you where is exactly my problem: g=function(x,matrice) { x1 = x[1:ncol(X)] # 1st parameter x1 is a vector x2 = x[ncol(X)+1] # 2nd parameter x2 is real x3 = x(0,166,5) # 3rd parameter is a matrix ----> How should one write it ??? x4 = x[ncol(X)+1:ncol(X)+1+ncol(Y)] #4th paramater is a vector res1=rep(0,nrow(X)) res2=matrix(0,nrow=nrow(X),ncol=ncol(Y)) for (i in 1:nrow(X)) { res1[i]=log(1/(1+exp(-t(x1)%*%X[i,]-x2))) for (t in 1:ncol(Y)) { res2[i,t]=log(((1+exp(-t(x3[,t])%*%X[i,]-x4[t]))/(sqrt(2*pi)))* (exp(-0.5*((1+exp(-t(x3[,t])%*%X[i,]-x4[t]))*(1-Y[i,t]))^(2)))) } } sum(res1)+sum(res2) # the function to minimize } opt=optim(c(alpha[,c+1],beta[c+1],w,gamma),g) ### and how can we call optim ??? Thank you in advance!
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